[spectre] Digital Access: Collections, Creators and Copyright, Queen Mary University, London Tuesday 28th April

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Digital communications technologies offer important ways for museums, 
galleries and libraries to promote public access to their collections. 
However, digital access also raises issues of copyright law and can 
affect the interests of creators and copyright owners.

*Professor Andrew Kenyon (Distinguished Fellow in Law, Queen Mary, 
University of London and Director, CMCL-Centre for Media and 
Communications Law, University of Melbourne) will examine recent 
research into the perceived conflicts between the users of copyright 
material in the cultural sector, and creators and other copyright 
owners. The Australian experience will be critiqued and contrasted with 
the aid of commentators from the London creative sector.

*Bronac Ferran is a freelance writer, researcher and arts consultant who 
also works part-time as a Visiting Lecturer in the Industrial Design 
Engineering department at the Royal College of Art in London . She is 
involved in projects in Brazil, China and the US and is a founder member 
of the bricolabs initiative which has members worldwide. Her work in the 
UK includes contributing to the ACE funded Art and Law initiative.

*Dr Paul Gerhardt leads the UK’s Creative Archive Licence Group – a 
consortium of public and commercial broadcasters and archives developing 
a shared public access strategy. He was joint director of the BBC 
Creative Archive.

This event is free of charge.

Venue: Clinical Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Building, Queen Mary 
University, Mile End
Time: 12 noon Tuesday 28th April
Booking and Directions; 
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/artsweek2009/programme/tuesday/index.html#digital